Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
Normal right submodules and right ideals need not coincide in an arbitrary near-ring. Berman and Silverman (1) have shown that in a near-ring (N, +, ·) with a two-sided zero (i.e. x · 0 = 0 · x = 0, for all x ∈ N) a right ideal is also a right submodule. If (N, +, ·) is in fact a distributively generated near-ring, then all normal right submodules are also right ideals. (See (5).)